Name styles and formats

Review the delivered person name styles per legislation and see how the field sets differ by country. Configure a name style for a country that needs different components. Configure the name formats — display, list, order-by, full name — apply them to person names, keywords and directory display, run the process that applies format changes, and look at the same person under two formats. Name handling is where global implementations get culturally clumsy. Name order, the presence or absence of a middle name, multiple surnames, honorifics — all vary. Get the country HR leads to review the styles before go-live. It is a five-minute conversation that prevents a great deal of offence, and the offence is given to employees rather than to the project. Format changes require the apply process to run. They are not immediate, and the gap is where people conclude the setting did not save. And keywords…

In this module: Module 9 · Person

1. 1The person record and effective datingFree preview
2. 2Person number generation
3. 3Person types
4. 4Name styles and formats
5. 5National identifiers and addresses
6. 6Demographic information and lookups
7. 7Person search and keywords
8. 8Photos, duplicates and record synchronization
9. 9Batch loading workers
10. 10What breaks
11. 11Lab: configure the person record and load 200 workers